North Sea Strikes; A Failure Of Leadership

Today sees a most unusual type of strike. There is no picket line. There are no flags; no placards. No requests to honk your horn if you support the workers. After all, you don’t get many passing motorists when you’re taking industrial action on a North Sea oil platform.

In fact, you don’t get many strikes in the North Sea – full stop. Today’s dispute involving members of the RMT and Unite trade unions working for the Wood Group on Shell platforms is the first such dispute in Britain’s offshore oil and gas industry in almost a generation.

As some Offshore Post readers have commented on our Facebook page, it’s a rum time to stage a strike. The oil price has collapsed. Oil majors have cut their spending by billions of pounds. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been axed around the globe.

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